Sweden still outperforming many including... Germany... the EU itself and many other countries. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavi...othing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc
Sweden currently at over 30 deaths per day. Predicted to be over 100 per day by Christmas exceeding the April peak. Complete failure to the "natural herd immunity" stupidity. Sweden’s herd immunity strategy has failed, hospitals inundated With three words, Sweden’s king captured the panic engulfing his country as it backflips on its COVID-19 strategy and case numbers explode. https://www.news.com.au/world/europ...d/news-story/374e397d9232036000a1d38548eabff9 With three words, Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf captured the panic engulfing his country as it backflips on a controversial herd immunity strategy and coronavirus case numbers explode. On Instagram, he wrote, simply: “Hold on tight!” The message is echoing around the Nordic breakaway nation which, up until now, has run a distinctly different race to its neighbours who locked down hard when the pandemic breached its borders. It signals a complete reversal of a policy that allowed Swedes to govern themselves in the hopes that life could go on as normal. Life did carry on as normal and it looked like Sweden might be vindicated for its strategy. But in the past few weeks, the country of 10 million has been smashed by COVID-19. There were 6000 cases in a single day last week and hospitalisations are rising faster than anywhere else in Europe. The death toll is following predictably behind. The Washington Post reports that Sweden’s per capita death rate is several times higher than in Finland, Denmark and Norway – all of which locked down early. It is believed roughly one-in-five people in Stockholm are infected. With numbers exploding, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has been forced to swallow his pride and admit that he got it wrong. At a news conference on Monday, he did just that, telling reporters: “It is a clear and sharp signal to every person in our country as to what applies in the future. Don’t go to the gym, don’t go the library, don’t have dinner out, don’t have parties – cancel!” And with that, Sweden’s experiment was officially crushed. But critics say it was never going to succeed. Australian man and COVID-19 long-hauler David Steadson, who worked as an epidemiologist with the University of Queensland before moving to Sweden 20 years ago, told news.com.au the Swedish model rested too heavily on the wishful thinking that Swedes would keep themselves safe. But the attitude that COVID-19 was not to be taken seriously became intertwined in the public health response. When Mr Steadson first became ill, the advice from doctors was to stay away. “Having suspected I had COVID-19, I was told not to even go to the doctor for fear of infecting health staff,” he says. Even local media failed to gauge the seriousness of the situation, he said. “Media outlets seemed more concerned with protecting Sweden’s image than they did in reporting the facts, and challenging the authorities over some of the frankly outrageous statements they make is left almost entirely to foreign journalists,” he says. Dr Nick Talley is editor-in-chief of the Medical Journal of Australia. He says the Swedish model has been a failure. “In my view, the Swedish model has not been a success, at least to date,” he told news.com.au. “One clear goal at least early on was [to] reach herd immunity – but this was not achieved, not even close, and this was arguably predictable.” He is joined by an increasing number of experts, both overseas and in Sweden, who are seeing the light. Annika Linde, who was the predecessor to Sweden’s top public health officer Anders Tegnell, told the UK’s Daily Telegraph that she “hoped” Dr Tegnell was right about projections that Sweden would suffer less casualties because of accrued immunity. “I hoped he was right. It would have been great. But he wasn’t,” she said. “Now we have a high death rate, and we have not escaped a second wave: Immunity makes a little difference maybe, but not much difference.”
Sadly their entire national COVID strategy based on "natural herd immunity" has failed and imploded. Their top public health officer Anders Tegnell is attempting to cling to his dignity while making all sorts of odd statements while being criticized by all the previous top public health officers for his disastrous approach. Unfortunately Sweden's "just let it spread" approach left many gaps in the their health system. The COVID testing capacity in Sweden was never increased to the level required even needed to process moderate level of tests -- because testing was not deemed important when you "just let it spread". Similar issues with the acquisition of COVID tests. Furthermore Sweden never bulked up the critical care units of their hospitals since the health ministry was preaching people would be immune and there would be no second wave. Sweden has just barely started coming to their senses.... sadly they are about to get a painful lesson this winter because they are still not pivoting quickly.
Jem can't grasp this as he has never had a job where he was not mostly trying to charge people for fixing mistakes he made. Magical thinking and trying to reset reality is all he has. This was so completely bloody obvious to anyone who ran real projects, all the IT guys knew what would happen.
You are a fucking idiot and you must be a little jealous bitch because you just make shit up and lie about my job and then business history.